#83 in Historical fiction
New out March 27, 2026
The Calamity Club
- NYT bestseller · 23 weeks on the list, peaked at #2
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Our view
“The Calamity Club” is a moving, hopeful novel of friendship set in Oxford, Mississippi, in the depths of the Great Depression. Kathryn Stockett’s second novel, seventeen years after “The Help”, brings together a girl without parents, a bookkeeper who never married and a resourceful woman fallen on hard times, against poverty, hypocrisy and narrow freedoms. Some readers single out its sharp, lively dialogue.
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About the book
The Calamity Club is a historical fiction novel by American author Kathryn Stockett, published by Spiegel & Grau on May 5, 2026. It is Stockett's second novel, appearing seventeen years after her debut The Help (2009). Set in Oxford, Mississippi in 1933 during the Great Depression, the book follows three females — an orphaned girl, an unmarried bookkeeper, and a resourceful down-on-her-luck woman — whose lives converge amid the poverty, hypocrisy, and constrained freedoms of the Depression-era Deep South. It reached the top of the New York Times bestseller list on publication.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.3 across 68 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 32% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Historical fiction average of 8.0. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.3 | 68 | 100% |
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